Grammar Time
Forms of Poetry
Figurative Language
Poetic Devices
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The adjective in the following sentence:Jessica was delighted as he played with his new bike is
What is new?
100
A type of poem with a story told in verse.
What Narrative
100
a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
What is a metaphor?
100
Define rhythm
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language
100
____ connect sentence parts and helps improve the flow of your writing
What are conjunctions?
200
A word that describes a noun or pronoun or gives a noun or pronoun a more specific meaning.
What is an adjective?
200
A funny poem that has one stanza with a set pattern of lines and syllables
What is Limerick
200
an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
200
Define rhyme
What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
200
Express feelings;add liveliness to dialogue
What are interjections
300
Identify the 2 adjectives in the following sentence: "The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous."
What are hungry and ravenous
300
The poetry type that is about nature, and it has a set syllable count
What is Haiku
300
a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject possesses human characteristics
What is personification
300
Which lines rhyme with each other? 1 Softly, as if instinct with thought, ?2 They float and drift, delay and turn; ?3 And one avoids and one is caught, ?4 Between an oak-leaf and a fern.
What are lines 1 and 3 and lines 2 and 4
300
Which sentence uses an interjection: a. Ouch! I stomped my toe! b. Do not yell at me! c. Jason, you drive me crazy!
What is a Ouch!
400
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: "Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up."
What is quietly?
400
The poetry form that has a narrator and a meaningful shape.
concrete poem
400
The following is an example of which figurative device? He crept into the room as quiet as a mouse.
What is a Simile
400
How many syllables are in each line? 1 Softly, as if instinct with thought, ?2 They float and drift, delay and turn; ?3 And one avoids and one is caught, ?4 Between an oak-leaf and a fern.
What is 8
400
The word FANBOYS is an acronym for all the coordinating conjunctions. What are they
For And Nor But Or Yet So
500
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: The last day of school passed slowly.
What is slowly?
500
How much would you like to wager?
Daily Double!!! Compose a thesis statement on the following argumentative prompt: Many people disagree with how we elect our president today. Some people believe that the President of the U.S. should be elected by popular vote, while others believe that it should be based on the elector college. What do you think? Compose a well-written argumentative essay where you argue for one or the other.
500
Boom! Snap! Crackle! Pop!
What is onomatopoeia
500
What’s the rhyme pattern? "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—-and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.“
What is "The time has come," the Walrus said, (A) "To talk of many things: (B) Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— (C) Of cabbages—-and kings— (B) And why the sea is boiling hot— (D) And whether pigs have wings." (B) The poem's rhyme scheme is ABCBDB
500
Which word best completes these sentence? I need you to go to the store ____ buy us some candy. She looked at me ___ if I had two heads when I asked him to get out of the pool.
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